5 Quick Reverb Mixing Tricks - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro

[Music] hello hope you'll do obviously well so were to show you five quick Reverb tips these are reverb tips I use each and every day so as ever please subscribe go to produce like a pro comm you can sign up for the email list get a whole bunch of free goodies and of course when you subscribe hit the notification bell and then you will be told when we have new videos coming up okay so we're going to go to this new song by David of the work day release and I'm gonna go up and have a look at this kick drum here so here's the live kick drum sounds pretty cool [Music] quite natural sounding but not the drums on a whole need a bit more ambience to them sounds good but I want to put a bit of reverb on the kick now I don't want this to be like huge and washy so what am I gonna do well first of all I'm gonna create go stereo stereo auxilary doesn't really matter can she be a mono I can make it solo safe let's input it just bust one two why not to do well obviously call this kick verb like so so that's zero okay so I'll select a reverb I'm gonna go something really generic because that will work perfectly I'm gonna go medium room which gives me a 750 milliseconds okay so this output out here okay so this [Music] sounds pretty good okay it sounds good but all I want is the sound of the air around it turn it off [Music] see what it's doing is taking the low end of the kick and it's making it sound massive but it's going to get too big it's gonna fight with my bass guitar so what do I do I just go to an EQ something generic I do this I wipe off let's say let's go up to like back on so it's doing everything I wanted to do it's giving me some a little bit of air on the kick but it's not affecting the low-end now in this context it might not seem like that big of a deal but when you start layering on like bass guitars and low-end of other instruments like a bit on the electric guitars whatever the thing with the kick is if it extends too long it's like boy it's got this long low extension it will fight other instruments this is a very very normal thing Abbey Road they would EQ the low and the high end out of all of their rooms and their plates and everything and it's a great idea because it cleans up the low-end in particular cool so trick number one take out the low end on your reverb on your kick drum okay so next up is gonna be a trick you may have seen of mine alright so we're gonna take these stereo guitars here [Music] okay so we're going to take the stereo guitar it's got one pan left or one pan right and I'm going to create a multi mono reverb so why am i doing that why am I using a multi mono when I'm going multi mono because imagine if you're in a room and you might be standing on the left hand side of the room so far over to the left and I sing la the reverb will still carry on on the right so a multi mono reverb as opposed to a stereo reverb will keep it on the left if I go to the right sing over on the right hand side so you understand what I'm saying so we'll call this guitar verb we'll bring it in or just use the next bus available which of course would be three and four and this is what we gonna do so I'm gonna take the right hand pan guitar which is this one here and I'm gonna send it to the left hand side see what I'm doing and because it's a multi mono it will stay only on the left so I'm gonna select a multi mono reverb yeah let's go to something ah we'll go medium room give us a once well large room they goes give us a one second river so what should we do we'd like your tie on the right hand side we've got its reverb on the left okay now let's select bus 4 for the other guitar and that guitars pan left and yes you guessed it it's reverb goes right [Music] cool so what we're doing is we're creating some really good space because if you put reverb underneath itself it tends to get muddy and messy so this kind of makes things honestly feel wider the left goes further left the right goes further right okay all right so this to the snare drum now this one is a simple one this is an Andy Wallace trick I remember reading this in the 90s and that's where I got it from I was reading an interview with Annie Wallace and I did actually work on one out but so what does he do he does this see and this is an interesting idea so we're creating a another auxilary obviously we're going to make it five and six out put it here what does he do if he's using a snare sample against the snare and you don't have to use the snare sample itself turned up the thing with this trick is to use the snare sample to trigger the reverb why would he do that but it's as simple as this there's no bleed there's no high happily there's no kick in there it gets a nice clean reverb so again we'll go to our good old fashioned favorite reverb hair we'll just go medium room large room why not we'll go large room and we'll take this snare here this snare sample here call ringing snare so let's go and get our bus five and six that we've already selected and here we've got it's kind of nice so snare verb is what we'll call it now what's interesting is I can make this pre fade what does that mean that means the matter what I do on the actual snare channel itself it will still send to the reverb so I can now go so lo and behold I've muted the snare but it's still sending because it's pre fade to the reverb so now so we got there as a great trick we've got a snare sample triggering the reverb don't be afraid to use more than one reverb simple as that I'll always use at least two reverb sometimes three or four on the vocal what let's go create two stereo auxiliaries dum-dum-dum-dum format stereo generic ones okay 19:10 they can both have the same inputs believe it or not because I can automate the output so okay now what we gonna do is we'll just pick let us pick same generic cheap reverb we're gonna have a long plate it's a large plate well go I don't know two and a half seconds two point six seconds okay pull this down here this one will do a room one small five hundred milliseconds okay so just have a listen to the vocal you don't know too much reverb get rid of the long one that's nice for about a year or two these can do so there it is there see what the long one sounds like us go to the course so I have the tube reverb going together so all I'll do is literally use different variations so let's turn down the long one pretty low and bring a long one back up in the chorus it's kind of nice when they both work together in the course in I can find one and then maybe in the second verse I'll have the longer plate reverb up a little bit louder not as loud as a chorus but louder than the first verse and let it grow as the song gets more dense I bring you more reverb there's one vocal reverb trick use multiple reverbs let's try one more for schnitz and Senegal's so we've got these now we've got these two reverbs going but let's just say we want to do something really beautiful and spacious okay so it's create another auxilary stereo believe it or not I'm gonna pull down the same reverb and use that again I'm gonna come in on the same input how day so I'm still using the same bus because I can use the return volume the actual volume after the plug-in to do all of my automation I personally find it really confusing to try and do a lot of automation in cents it's also visually difficult because you have to go into all these sub menus down here and go what's well send down here and go here and draw it in there you can do that most of the time I find it much easier to do what I want to do on the reverb itself okay so I'm gonna take this reverb down I am gonna use a large or Church eight seconds crazy okay so I'll go to the last chorus here will mute the other two rivers for a second and you're gonna hear how insane this is in our caseload one more deserving of Blayne I know myself that's crazy crazy talk you say okay but what about this let's take a generic compressor let's go and find dum dee dum dum dum dum dum I like this compressor simple easy to use let's go to the key input yes the key input and let's choose nine which is also sending to the reverb so I'm sending nine and ten to the reverb I'm now using a compressor after the reverb using the same scent you're like what is he doing well I'm side-chaining the reverb so now in our case find one more deserving of all the blame I know myself well and everything points that way though I'm clean no I can never change that ease so it's great so I get this really long reverb but I'm compressing it after the reverb with the vocal itself so when he doesn't sing the reverb comes up listen to this in our cave ride one more deserving you have all the blame I know my so we can speed up the release time just a little bit more so it comes up quicker and I can find one more deserving you have all the blame I know myself well and everything points that way and though I'm clean no I can never change that's a beautiful illustration of it there no I can never change that these conditions are mine alone to claim see how beautiful ladies at the end so it's just great let's go reverb tastic no I can never change [Music] [Music] fantastic what's great about side-chaining the reverb is the reverb is ducking is being pushed down while he's singing it's not disappearing but it's down considerably and volume I mean we're getting what 9 DB there 9 decibels of reduction so the reverb is 9 DB quieter and as soon as you stop singing comes back up and you get this around it so there you go five quick and easy tricks that I use every single day in every single song you can adopt them in all different ways I mean people put reverb on bass if you've ever read the Geoff Emerick book he talks about putting a little bit of reverb on Paul McCartney space and a lot of Motown songs they put a little bit of herb on the bass but when you would do that like Jeff would have done in Abbey Road he would have rolled off the low end so you get the sound of the bass but you don't ruin the like low end and it doesn't become like a big mud so there's a really great tricks that sidechaining just getting into sidechaining in itself you can do it on delays as well we'll talk about that another time so hopefully these little five quick tricks will really help you out so please subscribe to produce like a pro you can of course hit that bell and you'll get notified when I have a new video and of course go to produce like a pro com sign up for the email list get a whole bunch of free goodies and thank you ever so much for watching and we'll see you again very soon [Music]

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Length: 16min 26sec (986 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 17 2018